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He has played most of his career closer to the LOS, it's tough to move back on defense and there will always be an adjustment period. To expect him to be great immediately there is unreasonable, but don't let that stop a bunch of OSU fans from being critical because he went to Michigan.

My problem with them was on the targeting call on the hit on Eubanks. They keeps debating if it was or wasn't targeting and showing clips of the hit, but never discussed if Eubanks was OK. After the shot of Eubanks on the ground with trainers around him, they didn't mention him or show any footage of him being treated or being taken off the field.

I didn't think they'd be great going into the season, and even though they have a lot of TFLs I don't know if they are a great defense. It's still too early for advanced stats to mean much, but they haven't faced great offenses so absolute stats like the NCAA website don't mean that much. Same can be said for Michigan and every other team at this point, though it's much better to be in the top 10 than the bottom 10.

What about penalizing offensive players for lowering their heads into a tackle? If we're trying to protect the players, that's just as dangerous as a defender going in high.

The rule is well intentioned, but so poorly defined and officiated that it only serves to ruin games. If enforcement is way up, even after a couple of years of coaches teaching their players not to target, then something is really wrong. Targeting should go down as players learn about the rule, not up.

Methodology is likely poor and Michigan's internal charting shows much different results. These sites don't know the playcall, and I doubt they spend enough time on each game if they are actually charting every player on every play. Look at how long Brian takes to do UFR and that is just for 1 game a week, plus even he admits that his charting isn't perfect due to info he doesn't have from the coaches. So you need to take these numbers with a big grain of salt and if something doesn't pass the smell test, it's likely an error.

I think there's a really interesting discussion around this idea. Without knowing the exact play call, how accurate can these game charting systems be? And coaches will never release the actual play call. So coaches can call these out and say their internal charting shows very different results, and fans can't really object because they don't know the play call. However, I'm sure coaches will lie to cover their players or create more confusion among opponents. So the best we get is flawed data.

After Florida, everyone seemed to forget how young this team is. I got pissed at Crawford's drop thinking the veteran of the WR corp should be better than that, before remembering he was a true sophomore. Pre-season everyone mentioned youth potentially holding the team back, but it can be hard to visualize what that entails before seeing it on the field. Lack of WR separation, OL confusion, and other mistakes are what we are seeing now as the result of youth.

People want the play calling to be more creative, but the players need to get the basics down before they can get fancy. Only so many plays you can install with this many first year starters, and we still see Speight occasionally helping guys line up properly(part of why we don't see O'Korn or Peters).

Until Michigan can show they can reliably hit deep passes, every team will play agressive defense as AF and Cinci did. Speight's deep accuracy seems to have improved, but the WRs have regressed at getting open deep. Will really suck if Black is out for a while, but hopefully DPJ is getting up to speed, and Perry reappears. Plus some TE routes behind the LBs to take advantage of LB blitzes.

There are tons of videos on youtube to teach almost anything these days. Lots of free courses he can take, and tutorials on how to do video editing for any software out there. Take some time to search through google and youtube it's all out there.

Yep. Everyone mentioned inexperience as what would hold this team back, and then when it rears it's head during the season, everyone is freaking out like the sky is falling. The team will get better as the season goes on, Speight is the best option at QB with so much other youth starting, and I'm suddenly nervous about MSU. They will take the same agressive defensive approach, spend all season looking for ways to confuse the OL and WRs, and it could get ugly if the offense lets them hang around all game and can't put it away.

Not sure how good UVA defense is, but Lagow who threw 65 passes for 410 yards against OSU was benched after going 3/10 for 25 yards against UVA. Cobbs was held to 5 catches for 62 yards after getting 11 for 149 against OSU.

Doesn't the long snapper have a 1 second grace period where he can't be hit? I recall it should have been a penalty in the MSU game in 2015 and if he gets hit right away it should have been a penalty in this game. The guy is technically a defenseless player so all the safety rules should apply.

What's your method with the sous vide? I've never been super happy when I've made steaks that way. I find they come out better either in a cast iron pan on the stove/oven or doing the reverse sear method on the grill. The ones I make sous vide just feel like I'm wasting a great steak when I could be making it one of the other ways mentioned above.

The coaches love the guys they have, and after seeing guys like Hudson, McKeon, Eubanks, Metellus, Evans, Kemp and Gil starting or playing significant snaps as true sophomores I'd say they've earned the benefit of the doubt(ll ranked outside of the top 300). Plus, if the team play well and the defense stays a top 5 unit, I would count on some nice surprises popping up on the recruiting radar in a couple months.

From what I've gathered, he didn't have Wheatley's trust, and that was what kept him off the field in 2016(2015 was the fumble issues). Insiders were saying we'd see him more these years now that Jay Harbaugh was the RB coach. Still looked a little loose with the ball, but ran very well.